The earliest and most obvious development of private universities in Malaysia is that some private universities have finally established their own university campuses after years of development.
During the period of 1998, when Malaysian educational institutions began to study in Malaysia, until 2002, only a few private universities in Malaysia had their own complete university campuses, which basically belonged to schools invested by relatively powerful enterprise groups in Malaysia. For example, Malaysia Multimedia University invested by Malaysia Telecom, Malaysia National Petroleum University built by Malaysia National Petroleum Company, Malaysia National Energy University built by Malaysia Energy Company, Kuala Lumpur Jianzhu University built by Fidelity Group after purchasing Malaysia's engineering training center, Sunway College built by Sunway Group, etc. In addition, almost all private schools are small in scale or rent school buildings. When Malaysian educational institutions just sent students to study in Malaysia (1998-2002), a very headache was the students' "disappointment and dissatisfaction" with the school buildings after they reported to the school, which also brought us a lot of inconvenience in enrollment and publicity at that time. Although we know that some schools have small school buildings, the teaching quality is still good.
Indy College has built its own complete teaching building in Julai New Town since 2002, Asia-Pacific University of Science and Technology has also built its own independent teaching building in Malaysian Multimedia Corridor, and Lin Guorong University has also built its own independent university teaching building in 2003. Sitia International University, Century University and Taylor University all built their own complete school buildings in 2004, 2005 and 2008 respectively. The University of Nottingham Malaysia completed a large-scale university campus in 2004 according to its own plan. Since then, almost all the more powerful private universities in Malaysia have basically built their own university buildings, big or small, which is a very gratifying development of private universities in Malaysia.
Secondly, private universities in Malaysia are very mature and experienced in the service and management of international students. After more than ten years of exploration and summary, every private school basically understands the needs of international students, and provides all international students with all problems from applying for admission, picking up planes, arranging accommodation, welcoming activities, and arranging freshmen to report for duty. The international student service centers in private universities have played a very good role in management and service. In fact, these changes began in 2004. On the one hand, private schools improve their own software and hardware facilities, on the other hand, they constantly improve and perfect the management and services for international students, which plays a very key role in expanding enrollment and publicity of private schools.
What's more, China students benefit from the fact that almost all of them can speak fluent Chinese in the international student service centers of private universities sponsored by Chinese, which is undoubtedly very beneficial to the freshmen who just arrived in Malaysia and need help. At the same time, the teachers in the international student service center of private universities are almost responsible for solving any problems encountered in students' daily life and study, on the one hand, reassuring the parents of students, on the other hand, satisfying the enrollment agency of the school. If students have any questions, they can always get in touch with the International Student Service Center as soon as possible, so as to solve their students' problems in time. Facts have proved that almost all international service centers of private universities are very responsible and attach great importance to the service of international students. Some vice presidents in charge of international affairs are personally in charge of the international student service center to ensure that all students' problems are solved in time, such as Jianshe University in Kuala Lumpur.
Moreover, many private universities have set up offices in China, dedicated to providing more convenient services for students and parents, and at the same time better supporting domestic institutions studying abroad to explore the market. These private universities with offices in China include Kuala Lumpur Jianshe University, India University, Shiya International University, Lin Guorong University and Asia-Pacific University of Science and Technology.
Another very commendable change is the improvement and improvement of intensive English courses in private universities. After the development and exploration from 1998 to 2003, private universities have found that the strengthening and learning of English language is very important for international students. Moreover, it is also an indispensable condition for private universities to study abroad. Although Malaysia also has professional English training institutions like ELS, many private universities send students to ELS to train English. However, the competition of market and educational resources makes all private schools attach importance to the training and strengthening of English language. In the early days, because of the shortage of international students and teachers, many private schools put all the international students enrolled at the same time together to train English. Up to now, English training in many private universities has been well planned and managed. After entering the school, students are given a language test, which is divided into different grades according to the test results, and they are trained and improved step by step in a planned way. At present, the English level of private universities varies from band 6 to band 9.
In terms of specialty setting, these private universities avoid the phenomenon of "clustering", but "seek common ground while reserving differences" and avoid blindly following the trend. Almost all of them explore the establishment of their own specialty under the premise of popular specialty, and gradually become the leader in their own specialty field. For example, although Lin Guorong University also offers majors in business and multimedia fields, the art major is a very powerful and competitive major, and almost no one can replace it; Taylor University's tourism hotel management major is almost the "boss" of private universities in Malaysia, and no one can match it. Kuala Lumpur Jianshe University is also second to none in civil engineering, automobile engineering, professional English and corporate public relations.
These gratifying developments and changes of private universities in Malaysia are mainly due to the fact that the Malaysian government attaches great importance to the management and support of private higher education. On the one hand, the management requires private schools to provide quality services for all international students. A small example can prove that during the period from 1998 to 1999, many problems occurred because private schools just started to recruit foreign students, and neither the government nor the schools themselves had much experience and effective methods. One of them is that some people disappeared after entering Malaysia on student visas and did not report to the school at all. There are also some institutions that study abroad for students under the guise of school reputation, but after arriving in Malaysia, students find that they have been cheated. In order to prevent this kind of incident from happening, the Malaysian Immigration Bureau has required all students to apply for a student entry approval letter from the applicant school to the Malaysian Immigration Bureau since 2000, and this approval letter is in duplicate, one for the student and one for the school. When students enter the country, the school must send a special person with relevant documents to meet the students at the customs of Malaysia Airport and register with the Customs and Immigration Bureau. This greatly standardized the enrollment and management of private schools. All private schools have to wait at the customs to meet their students, which is undoubtedly one of the best services for students.
In addition, the Malaysian government also strongly supports the development of private schools. Since 2002, the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education has upgraded more than ten private colleges to university colleges, and will continue to upgrade qualified university colleges to universities in the near future.
The Malaysian government's support and management measures for the education industry have brought about the prosperity and development of the education industry in Malaysia, and confirmed the confidence and determination of the Malaysian government to build Malaysia into an outstanding education center in Asia. Malaysian educational institutions have witnessed the development and changes of private higher education in Malaysia for more than ten years, which makes us firmly believe that Malaysia will become an outstanding education center in Asia. Malaysian educational institutions will, as always, provide the most professional guidance and help for all students who want to go to Malaysia for further study, and make suggestions for the promotion of reputable private universities in Malaysia.
Note: Malaysia is a country located in Southeast Asia, with Kuala Lumpur as its capital. Malaysia consists of thirteen states, which are divided into two parts: one part is located in West Malaysia on the Malay Archipelago, which borders Thailand in the north and Singapore across the Johor Strait in the south, with new soft embankment and second passage; The other is East Malaysia, which is located in the north of kalimantan island and borders Indonesia in the south, while Brunei is located between Sabah and Sarawak. Malaysia is also a founding member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.